Jan Shaw

Mom, wife, veterinarian, loves horses, animals, musical theater, gymnastics, family/framily,

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Reid Wiseman told his two teenage daughters where to find his will before he got on this rocket. He’s raised them alone since their mom died of cancer six years ago. Right now, he is 252,757 miles from home, farther from Earth than any human being has ever been.

Wiseman grew up outside Baltimore. Got rejected from the Naval Academy, went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute instead, studied computer engineering. Became a Navy fighter pilot, flew F-14 Tomcats (the jet from Top Gun) on combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. Two Middle East deployments by his mid-twenties. He saw a Space Shuttle launch in person in 2001 and couldn’t let go of it. Applied to NASA while at sea on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They picked him. Nine people out of 3,500 applicants. His astronaut class, nicknamed “The Chumps,” included Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian who’s floating next to him right now.

Wiseman’s first trip to space was 165 days on the Space Station in 2014. Two spacewalks. Thirteen hours outside the hull in nothing but a suit. He climbed all the way up to Chief of the Astronaut Office, the person who decides which astronauts fly and which ones sit. Then he gave it up in 2022 to put himself back on the flight list.

His wife Carroll was a nurse in a newborn intensive care unit. She got cancer. Fought it five years. Died in May 2020 at 46. His mother died from Alzheimer’s just weeks before that. Wiseman raised both daughters by himself after that. NASA’s own bio says he considers being a single parent his hardest challenge and the best part of his life. Even while she was dying, Carroll told Reid not to step back from his career. She made him keep going. His brother is a Navy SEAL. His father is 83 and battling cancer too. The old man told reporters he wanted to stay alive long enough to see his son launch.

Before liftoff, Wiseman’s daughters snuck homemade cookies into his flight bag. He posted a photo with them in front of the rocket and wrote “I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.”

The previous distance record from Earth belonged to the Apollo 13 crew. 248,655 miles, set in April 1970, and it was an accident. An oxygen tank blew up and the emergency route home happened to swing them farther out than anyone before. Wiseman broke that record by 4,100 miles, and his distance is on purpose. Today he flies within 4,600 miles of the Moon, photographs stretches of the far side that were too dark or at the wrong angle for any of the 24 Apollo astronauts to see, and watches a solar eclipse that nobody on Earth can see, only the four people inside that capsule.

Then he turns around and spends four days flying home to his girls.

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Coming in.. 😅

[NASA @NASA]

"We can see the Moon out of the docking hatch right now. It's a beautiful sight."

Flight day 3 is in the books, and our @NASAArtemis II crew is now closer to the Moon than to Earth. Check out highlights from our lunar mission. What’s been your favorite moment so far?

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

Marco Rubio 2 days ago: “Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military”

Trump today: “We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military”

Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

TRUMP STARTED A DAMN WAR WITH IRAN SO HIS KIDS, ERIC AND DON JR, COULD GET RICH SELLING DRONES IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!!

On top of that, he wants $1.5 trillion MORE taxpayer funds for his war, but nothing for American families.

Y'all were mad about Hunter Biden selling a painting.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This No Kings speech is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

The brave men and women who serve our nation deserve to be led by people who know what they are doing.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Look who I ran into at the No Kings rally in Torrance, California.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Let’s push this one up to 100K just to send that fucker a message.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Sorry Donald! It ain’t gonna happen! #WeSayNoKings

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Can we get this video of the #NoKings marches tweeted 1000 times??

Let’s show the world that America says NO to Trump!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

THIS IS AMAZING!

THANK YOU, AMERICA! 🇺🇸

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

🚨🚨🚨 Hey MAGA, REPUBLICANS, WAKE UP

“Not in the tax bracket to be Republican.’ ⁦@ThorenBradley⁩

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Amazing No Kings protest in Nashville Tennessee yesterday. The marchers were led by women dressed up as handmaids from “The Handmaids Tale.”

Each of them was holding a sign with a name of one of the people named in the Epstein files on it.

MAGA hates this.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Absolutely love Rep. Melanie Stansbury ❤️

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Pete Hegseth doesn’t want women in the Military,but I would love to see him or most men try to compete with these Female Fighter Pilots from the Air Force! These women are some of the best the whole Military has to offer! This Country wouldn’t be the same without them! 👇👇

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This! 👇👇👇👇

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

This is unacceptable, offensive, and wrong. Not one more dollar for an out of control, reckless, dangerous agency that is violating people’s rights daily.

[Evan @daviddunn177]

Donald Trump’s supporters are waking up this morning and finding out Democrat Taylor Rehmet won in a Texas district that’s been Republican since 1991.